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MediaWiki's notification system, implemented as a result of the [Notification framework RFC](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notification_framework), currently lives in the [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo|Echo]] extension. It should be in MediaWiki core. * A notification system is fundamental to any kind of modern website and should be part of the default MediaWiki experience. * Being in an extension, Echo has to use ugly hooks to suppress some core features and has generally weird interactions with some things. * extensions that wish to use it have to do conditional checks every time they'd like to trigger a notifications. * Echo is a reserved word in PHP, preventing us from using it as the namespace for a PHP class. ;-) == Former RfC == There was an RfC on this topic, without any definite outcome. See the comments of this task, [mw:Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core), and the IRC logs P3638 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-08-03-21.02.html)) and P3640 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-03-09-22.00.log.html)). == See also == * {T128352}

* Affected components: MediaWiki core (Watchlist notification, Talk page notif, Password reminder etc.), Echo extension, LoginNotify extension. * Engineer(s) or team for initial implementation: TBD. * Code steward: TBD. ### Motivation MediaWiki's notification system, implemented as a result of the [Notification framework RFC](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notification_framework), currently lives in the [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo|Echo]] extension. It should be in MediaWiki core. * A notification system is fundamental to any kind of modern website and should be part of the default MediaWiki experience. * Being in an extension, Echo has to use ugly hooks to suppress some core features and has generally weird interactions with some things. * extensions that wish to use it have to do conditional checks every time they'd like to trigger a notifications. * Echo is a reserved word in PHP, preventing us from using it as the namespace for a PHP class. ;-) ##### Requirements //(TBD: Specify the features or criteria that need to be met.)// * … ------- ### Exploration //(TBD: Use this space for data gathering, status quo, proposals, other considerations etc.)// ##### Former RFC: Notifications RFC (2011) There was an RfC on this topic in 2011, without any definite outcome. See the comments of this task, [mw:Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core), and the IRC logs P3638 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-08-03-21.02.html)) and P3640 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-03-09-22.00.log.html)). ##### Former RFC: Merge Notifications and Watchlist (2014) See {T128352}.

* Affected components: MediaWiki core (Watchlist notification, Talk page notif, Password reminder etc.), Echo extension, LoginNotify extension. * Engineer(s) or team for initial implementation: TBD. * Code steward: TBD. ### Motivation MediaWiki's notification system, implemented as a result of the [Notification framework RFC](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notification_framework), currently lives in the [[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Echo|Echo]] extension. It should be in MediaWiki core. * A notification system is fundamental to any kind of modern website and should be part of the default MediaWiki experience. * Being in an extension, Echo has to use ugly hooks to suppress some core features and has generally weird interactions with some things. * extensions that wish to use it have to do conditional checks every time they'd like to trigger a notifications. * Echo is a reserved word in PHP, preventing us from using it as the namespace for a PHP class. ;-) == Former RfC ==##### Requirements //(TBD: Specify the features or criteria that need to be met.)// * … ------- ### Exploration //(TBD: Use this space for data gathering, status quo, proposals, other considerations etc.)// ##### Former RFC: Notifications RFC (2011) There was an RfC on this topic in 2011, without any definite outcome. See the comments of this task, [mw:Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notifications_in_core), and the IRC logs P3638 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-08-03-21.02.html)) and P3640 ([wmflabs archive](https://tools.wmflabs.org/meetbot/wikimedia-office/2016/wikimedia-office.2016-03-09-22.00.log.html)). == See also ==##### Former RFC: Merge Notifications and Watchlist (2014) *See {T128352}.